You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
The Aurelion Sol Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aurelion Sol sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Aurelion Sol perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aurelion Sol is paired with Maokai, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aurelion Sol is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Maokai.
Moreover, when Aurelion Sol plays with Maokai on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Aurelion Sol during teamfights.
There is no top ally for Aurelion Sol that will always be his best ally. Yet, Maokai is a superb teammate for Aurelion Sol. By locking into the same side as Aurelion Sol, he raises their win rate by 3.9% to 54.5%. This shows that there is a very real synergy between Aurelion Sol and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Aurelion Sol. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Maokai comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Aurelion Sol players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Aurelion Sol and Maokai together, you may not be giving your team very much attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Aurelion Sol to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Aurelion Sol and Maokai synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Aurelion Sol included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Aurelion Sol boasted an average win rate of 54.5% when playing alongside Maokai with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Magical Footwear, and Minion Dematerializer runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.5% win rate overall.
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